Schelte Adams à Bolswert (1586–1659)

• Was a leading Dutch engraver.

• He is noted for his works after Rubens and Van Dyck.

• He was born in the town of Bolswert, in Friesland.
• Both he and his older brother, Boetius à Bolswert, worked in Amsterdam and Haarlem before settling in Antwerp.
• For the last five years of his life Boetius worked exclusively on engravings after Rubens.
• Following his death in 1633, Schelte was employed by Rubens in his place, working closely with the painter, who sometimes retouched his proofs.
• He continued to engrave his works after Rubens' death in 1640.
• Bolswert's plates were worked entirely with the graver, and he does not seem to have made any use of the drypoint.
• Bolswert plates are generally signed with his name. 
• He died at Antwerp in 1659.
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